[Game] Kings @ Timberwolves - Monday, Feb. 25 - 5PT/8ET
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When Bjelica entered the game the Kings were up by 5. When he left the game Kings were up by 6.
In the next 3 minutes, with Bjelica on the bench, Minnesota goes on a 15-0 run. 15-0! Complete with 4 Kings turnovers in those 3 minutes and 1 technical. How many lousy plays did you count during that time?
In the next 3 minutes, with Bjelica on the bench, Minnesota goes on a 15-0 run. 15-0! Complete with 4 Kings turnovers in those 3 minutes and 1 technical. How many lousy plays did you count during that time?
Yeah i agreed. He doesn't played up to his worth. His defense is great but he needs to knock down shots. But as I said before, he's probably got too tired playing with this pace. Still, no excuses. He needs to play like a star and make teams pay. There is one crucial moment, he was wide open and missed.
I do like Bjelica offense but his defense is a liability. I would like to see the coach surround him with defensive players if they're going to put him in the lineup. I wish he can play the SF....maybe that helps masked his defensive weakness with the help of Barnes and Bagley inside the paint. I think he get push around too easily inside the paint.
Kings were playing terrible and yet they still have a couple chances to get back into the game. And when they get their chances, they continue to squandered. It's just a bad loss. I do think the lineup changes screwed thing up. Guys now playing heavy minutes because coach can't find the right lineup that work. Seriously, now is NOT THE TIME to screw up the lineup. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. You only change line up if you're on a losing streak or somethin'. So that's why it's puzzling to me. Kings played 3 elite teams and play extremely well until tonight when he changed the lineup. Go figure!
At this point hard to name a Kings player including Fox that doesn’t have strengths and weaknesses. Dave is going to have to mix and match players to cover each other’s weaknesses. That is one reason I like Beli and Barnes together at this moment. Barnes can guard the perimeter and Beli can stretch the floor. Like it or not, Beli is our best shooting big.
Everyone has strengths and weaknesses, Bjeli's are just more pronounced and more egregious than our other options at this point.
Pros: Can shoot, is a capable rebounder, generally makes okay passes.
Cons: super slow footed, can't play defense, randomly decides to pass up open three pointers to make ill-fated drives to the rim like he thinks he's D-Wade.
Pros: Can shoot, is a capable rebounder, generally makes okay passes.
Cons: super slow footed, can't play defense, randomly decides to pass up open three pointers to make ill-fated drives to the rim like he thinks he's D-Wade.
If the Warriors applied this logic, Klay would come off the bench. With the Sixers, Jimmy Butler or Harris come off the bench.
Bagley is our only low post threat and complements Fox and Hield well. The problem with today is WCS got into early foul trouble and came back in with the second unit that he rarely sees the floor with. That Buddy/Ferrell/Bjelica/Burks/WCS lineup was absolutely brutal
Bagley is our only low post threat and complements Fox and Hield well. The problem with today is WCS got into early foul trouble and came back in with the second unit that he rarely sees the floor with. That Buddy/Ferrell/Bjelica/Burks/WCS lineup was absolutely brutal
I would argue your can’t play defense is overstated as he can play decent post defense but for arguments sake let’s go with it:
In this line-up:
Fox: streaky shooter, at best going to rim
WCS: can’t shoot at all
Barnes: shooting 27% from 3 (23.3 as a King)
Hield: Good 3 point shooter
You better have one other good three point shooter out there to stretch the floor. Your choices are (numbers from Feb)
Bogdan: 20.5%
Bagley: 31.3%
Beli: 39.1%
Find a way to hide Beli’s defense so you can open the floor for Fox and WCS.
In this line-up:
Fox: streaky shooter, at best going to rim
WCS: can’t shoot at all
Barnes: shooting 27% from 3 (23.3 as a King)
Hield: Good 3 point shooter
You better have one other good three point shooter out there to stretch the floor. Your choices are (numbers from Feb)
Bogdan: 20.5%
Bagley: 31.3%
Beli: 39.1%
Find a way to hide Beli’s defense so you can open the floor for Fox and WCS.
Watched this one on replay but had to let a good hour and a half go before a post. Outside the the suns collapse, definitely the most frustrated I’ve been with a game this year.
- the effort was there from the beginning, but man that was a lot of uneven sloppy play, with a combination of a lot of bad luck bounces and more butterfingers/balls rolling through guys legs than I can remember in a game. Every potential run was met with a bonehead, momentum killing play.
- WCS with a -20 in 12:45 masterpiece. Worst game I’ve ever seen him play. What happened to the WCS that was aggressively using his speed and length in offense, with the nice spin moves to the basket. That guy is long gone and it’s a mystery. He can’t throw the ball in the ocean, isn’t aggressively attacking the rim. In the 2nd we inexplicably keep running the offense through him in the high post.
- Not a great game for buddy, but he cannot be benched down the stretch. Down 5 with I believe 2 left and we needed a bucket. Buddy can make magic happen. I don’t care what got us there, he needed to be in the game.
- Barnes continues to play solid D with a nice floor game, but the shooting slump needs to end in a hurry.
- Harry with a tough game. He just doesn’t have the size needed against a player like Kat.
- Burks not cutting it at this point. A failure of a move. I’m over the locker room let down from losing Shump, but as of now Shump was giving us much more on both ends of the floor.
- Bogi slump. He’s our guy and we need to keep running with him at this point, but he needs to get back to his overall strong floor game.
- Marvin. Wow. Solid all around. Outside of the full court turnover late in the game (could see that coming a mile away) just a great game. Say what you will about his defensive ability, the man battles and was the only one on the team that could keep Kat in order.
At this point, we move on. I really hate the assertion that game 60 in the season is a “must win” game when we are still only 2 out of the 7th spot. Way too much time to cry about this one. Move forward and battle against the Bucks....then let’s start to string some wins together.
- the effort was there from the beginning, but man that was a lot of uneven sloppy play, with a combination of a lot of bad luck bounces and more butterfingers/balls rolling through guys legs than I can remember in a game. Every potential run was met with a bonehead, momentum killing play.
- WCS with a -20 in 12:45 masterpiece. Worst game I’ve ever seen him play. What happened to the WCS that was aggressively using his speed and length in offense, with the nice spin moves to the basket. That guy is long gone and it’s a mystery. He can’t throw the ball in the ocean, isn’t aggressively attacking the rim. In the 2nd we inexplicably keep running the offense through him in the high post.
- Not a great game for buddy, but he cannot be benched down the stretch. Down 5 with I believe 2 left and we needed a bucket. Buddy can make magic happen. I don’t care what got us there, he needed to be in the game.
- Barnes continues to play solid D with a nice floor game, but the shooting slump needs to end in a hurry.
- Harry with a tough game. He just doesn’t have the size needed against a player like Kat.
- Burks not cutting it at this point. A failure of a move. I’m over the locker room let down from losing Shump, but as of now Shump was giving us much more on both ends of the floor.
- Bogi slump. He’s our guy and we need to keep running with him at this point, but he needs to get back to his overall strong floor game.
- Marvin. Wow. Solid all around. Outside of the full court turnover late in the game (could see that coming a mile away) just a great game. Say what you will about his defensive ability, the man battles and was the only one on the team that could keep Kat in order.
At this point, we move on. I really hate the assertion that game 60 in the season is a “must win” game when we are still only 2 out of the 7th spot. Way too much time to cry about this one. Move forward and battle against the Bucks....then let’s start to string some wins together.
For what it's worth, it appears that the only reason Marvin sucked on defense with Duke is because Coach K decided not to have him play any as opposed to him lacking the skill to be a plus player on that end. Tonight he played KAT the best out of all of our bigs, used his athletic ability to alter shots in the paint, and was an all-around pest on that end of the court. Then again, Joerger and Elston Turner are two of the best defensive coaches in the league so it's not really any wonder that they'd be able to turn a self-starting physical specimen like Marvin into a good defender.
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